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• 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
• 1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
• 1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
• 1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
• 1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøy in Norway.
• 1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
• 1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
• 1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
• 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
• 1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
• 1864 – Great Fire of Brisbane
• 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
• 1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
• 1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
• 1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
• 1918 – Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
• 1918 – The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
• 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
• 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
• 1919 – The first issue of Diário de Noite is published from Goa.
• 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.
• 1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
• 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
• 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book; the case remains unsolved and is "one of Australia's most profound mysteries."
• 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
• 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• 1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
• 1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
• 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
• 1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
• 1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
• 1964 – Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
• 1965 – India's Border Security Force is established.
• 1966 – The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
• 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
• 1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
• 1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
• 1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
• 1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
• 1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
• 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
• 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
• 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
• 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
• 2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
• 2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
• 2013 – China launches Yutu or Jade Rabbit, its first lunar rover, as part of the Chang'e 3 lunar exploration mission.
• 2013 – A derailment of a Metro-North Railroad train near Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York City kills four and injures 61.

Births[edit]

• 1081 – Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
• 1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
• 1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
• 1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
• 1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (d. 1637)
• 1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)
• 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Czech singer-songwriter, violinist, and conductor (d. 1789)
• 1716 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
• 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
• 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (d. 1850)
• 1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
• 1844 – Alexandra of Denmark (d. 1925)
• 1846 – Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (d. 1923)
• 1847 – Julia A. Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
• 1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic, assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923)
• 1883 – Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic (d. 1974)
• 1884 – Torben Meyer, Danish actor (d. 1975)
• 1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
• 1886 – Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author (d. 1977)
• 1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
• 1897 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer (d. 1977)
• 1898 – Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
• 1901 – Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (d. 1988)
• 1902 – Rudolf Loo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Hans-Heinrich Sievert, German decathlete (d. 1963)
• 1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (d. 2004)
• 1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
• 1911 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
• 1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
• 1916 – Wan Li, Chinese politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2015)
• 1917 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (d. 1995)
• 1917 – Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (d. 1979)
• 1922 – Paul Picerni, American actor (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
• 1923 – William F. House, American otologist and physician (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
• 1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1924 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (d. 2015)
• 1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1926 – Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
• 1926 – Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)
• 1927 – Micheline Bernardini, French dancer and model
• 1928 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1928 – Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
• 1929 – David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1930 – Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wales
• 1930 – Rhea Chiles, American philanthropist, founded the Polk Museum of Art (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
• 1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
• 1931 – Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Curro Romero, Spanish bullfighter
• 1934 – Billy Paul, American singer
• 1935 – Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (d. 2014)
• 1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
• 1937 – Gordon Crosse, English composer and academic
• 1937 – Chuck Low, American actor
• 1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist and politician, 6th President of Latvia
• 1938 – Sandy Nelson, American drummer
• 1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer
• 1940 – Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
• 1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1940 – Tasso Wild, German footballer
• 1942 – Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Egypt
• 1942 – John Crowley, American author and academic
• 1943 – Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
• 1944 – Pierre Arditi, French actor
• 1944 – Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult)
• 1944 – John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter (The Doors and the Butts Band)
• 1944 – Michael Hagee, American general
• 1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and poet
• 1944 – Werner Scholz, German footballer
• 1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
• 1946 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
• 1946 – Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist and author
• 1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2009)
• 1947 – Elizabeth Baur, American actress
• 1947 – Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1947 – Jinpachi Nezu, Japanese actor
• 1948 – George Foster, American baseball player and radio host
• 1948 – Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer and politician
• 1948 – John Roskelley, American mountaineer and author
• 1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
• 1948 – N. T. Wright, English bishop and scholar
• 1948 – Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kaduna State (d. 2012)
• 1949 – Colleen Brennan, American porn actress
• 1949 – Jan Brett, American author and illustrator
• 1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993)
• 1949 – Jake Hartford, American radio host (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile
• 1950 – Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic
• 1950 – Gary Panter, American illustrator and painter
• 1950 – Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician
• 1950 – Richard Keith, American actor and drummer (David and the Giants)
• 1951 – Obba Babatundé, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Albert Ho, Hong Kong lawyer and politician
• 1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Weather Report, Trio of Doom, and Blood, Sweat & Tears) (d. 1987)
• 1951 – Treat Williams, American actor and author
• 1952 – Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright
• 1954 – Viv Albertine, British singer and songwriter
• 1954 – Bob Goen, American television host
• 1954 – Judith Hackitt, English chemist and engineer
• 1954 – Annette Haven, American porn actress
• 1954 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer
• 1955 – Veikko Aaltonen, Finnish filmmaker
• 1955 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
• 1955 – Pat Spillane, Irish footballer and sportscaster
• 1955 – Mark Thompson, American radio host and actor
• 1955 – Karen Tumulty, American journalist
• 1956 – Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth, Circle Jerks, Damn the Machine, and OHM)
• 1957 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2011)
• 1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Alberto Cova, Italian runner
• 1958 – Lisa Fischer, American singer-songwriter
• 1958 – Gary Peters, American lieutenant and politician
• 1958 – Charlene Tilton, American actress
• 1959 – Billy Childish, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter (The Medway Poets, Thee Mighty Caesars, and Thee Headcoats)
• 1959 – Wally Lewis, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1960 – Carol Alt, American model
• 1960 – Shirin M. Rai, Indian political scientist
• 1960 – Jane Turner, Australian actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Safra A. Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman
• 1961 – Raymond E. Goldstein, American academic and educator
• 1961 – Lynn LeMay, American porn actress
• 1961 – Armin Meiwes, German cannibal and murderer
• 1961 – Jeremy Northam, English actor and singer
• 1962 – Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
• 1962 – Sayoko Hagiwara, Japanese actress
• 1962 – Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 – Marco Greco, Brazilian race car driver
• 1963 – Nathalie Lambert, Canadian speed skater
• 1963 – Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
• 1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
• 1964 – Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet
• 1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Katherine LaNasa, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1966 – Ali Mosaffa, Iranian actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Nestor Carbonell, American actor
• 1967 – Reggie Sanders, American baseball player
• 1968 – Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
• 1968 – Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
• 1969 – Richard Carrier, American author and blogger
• 1970 – Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman and actor
• 1970 – Golden Brooks, American actress
• 1970 – Julie Condra, American actress
• 1970 – Jonathan Coulton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Lembit Rajala, Estonian footballer
• 1970 – Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman, American stand-up comedian, writer, actress and singer
• 1970 – Tisha Waller, American high jumper
• 1971 – Trinity, American wrestler and stuntwoman
• 1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress and screenwriter
• 1971 – Melanie Peres, German-Israeli model, actress, and singer
• 1971 – Christian Pescatori, Italian race car driver
• 1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish-American pianist and composer
• 1971 – John Schlimm, American author and educator
• 1971 – Dolgorsürengiin Serjbüdee, Mongolian wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1971 – Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio host
• 1972 – Bart Millard, American singer-songwriter (MercyMe)
• 1973 – Steve Gibb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Black Label Society and Crowbar)
• 1973 – Jon Theodore, American drummer (One Day as a Lion, The Mars Volta, and Golden)
• 1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1975 – Matt Fraction, American author
• 1975 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (The Mars Volta, De Facto, and Free Moral Agents) (d. 2014)
• 1975 – Thomas Schie, Norwegian race car driver
• 1975 – Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
• 1976 – Tomasz Adamek, Polish boxer
• 1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist
• 1976 – Dean O'Gorman, New Zealand actor and photographer
• 1976 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
• 1976 – Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player
• 1977 – Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer (Linkin Park)
• 1977 – Jared Fogle, American spokesman
• 1977 – Lee McKenzie, Scottish journalist
• 1977 – Akiva Schaffer, American actor, rapper, director, producer, and screenwriter (The Lonely Island)
• 1977 – Nate Torrence, American actor
• 1978 – Mat Kearney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Angelique Bates, American actress
• 1979 – Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Stephanie Brown Trafton, American discus thrower
• 1980 – Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer
• 1980 – Roger Peterson, Aruban-Dutch singer-songwriter (Intwine)
• 1980 – Mubarak Hassan Shami, Kenyan-Qatari runner
• 1981 – Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter
• 1981 – Luke McPharlin, Australian footballer
• 1981 – I Made Wirawan, Indonesian footballer
• 1982 – Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper
• 1982 – Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
• 1982 – Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
• 1985 – John Coughlin, American figure skater
• 1985 – Philip DeFranco, American video blogger
• 1985 – Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1985 – Chanel Preston, American porn actress
• 1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
• 1986 – DeSean Jackson, American football player
• 1987 – Simon Dawkins, English footballer
• 1987 – Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islander sprinter
• 1987 – Vance Joy, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Brett Williams, English footballer
• 1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress and singer
• 1988 – Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player
• 1988 – Presley Hart, American porn actress
• 1988 – Yim Si-wan, South Korean actor and singer
• 1989 – Sotelúm, Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer
• 1990 – Chanel Iman, American model
• 1990 – Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1991 – Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player
• 1992 – Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 – Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1992 – Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
• 1993 – Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
• 1994 – Seedy Njie, English footballer
• 1995 – Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
• 1995 – Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1995 – James Wilson, English footballer
• 2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
• 2003 – Jackson Nicoll, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 1135 – Henry I of England (b. 1068)
• 1241 – Isabella of England (b. 1214)
• 1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
• 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (b. 1378)
• 1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
• 1530 – Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
• 1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
• 1581 – Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (b. 1556)
• 1581 – Edmund Campion, English priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540)
• 1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English martyr and saint (b. 1550)
• 1602 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese daimyo (b. 1582)
• 1633 – Isabella Clara Eugenia, Spanish wife of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1566)
• 1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1590)
• 1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)
• 1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian monk (b. 1644)
• 1723 – Susanna Centlivre, English actress and playwright (b. 1667)
• 1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
• 1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1755 – Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
• 1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
• 1825 – Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
• 1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
• 1866 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (b. 1790)
• 1867 – Charles Gray Round, English barrister and politician (b. 1797)
• 1884 – William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1913 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
• 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 1917 – John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
• 1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
• 1933 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
• 1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian politician (b. 1886)
• 1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
• 1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
• 1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
• 1950 – Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 – Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)
• 1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
• 1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921)
• 1969 – Magic Sam, American singer and guitarist (b. 1937)
• 1972 – Andreas Tzimas, Greek communist politician and Resistance leader (b. 1909)
• 1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927)
• 1975 – Ernesto Maserati, Italian automotive engineer and racer (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906)
• 1981 – Russ Manning, American author and illustrator (b. 1929)
• 1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (b. 1912)
• 1987 – James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1924)
• 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918)
• 1988 – J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (b. 1904)
• 1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (b. 1917)
• 1991 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1993 – Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (Badlands, Black Sabbath, Blue Murder, and Sun Red Sun) (b. 1959)
• 1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
• 1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian banker and businessman (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (Quintette du Hot Club de France) (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American captain and author (b. 1918)
• 2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Clark Kerr, American economist and academic (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1911)
• 2004 – Bill Brown, Scottish-Canadian footballer (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, Chinese-English actress and playwright (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Anton Rodgers, English actor and director (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Mikel Laboa, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1917)
• 2009 – Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan tenor and actor (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1914)
• 2010 – Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929)
• 2011 – Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
• 2012 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
• 2012 – Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
• 2012 – Ed Price, American pilot and politician (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Yoshinori Watanabe, Japanese mobster (b. 1941)
• 2013 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (Caravan and The Wilde Flowers) (b. 1947)
• 2013 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Walter E. Ellis, American serial killer (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Edward Heffron, American soldier (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942)
• 2014 – Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Sita Murt, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1959)